Category 5 Hurricane Melissa sped up early Tuesday, Oct. 28, making landfall in Jamaica in the early afternoon, before making a second landfall in Cuba early Wednesday, Oct. 29. Torrential downpours ...

Hurricane Melissa has become one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic. Melissa made landfall over New Hope, Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon as a powerful and destructive Category 5 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane Melissa was a monster. Scientists this week added yet another impressive record to the long list the storm already holds ...

BOULDER, Colo. (NSF NCAR) – Recent analysis of dropsonde data collected from a Hurricane Melissa has proved to be valid making Melissa one of the strongest storms ever recorded. On the morning of ...

Videos recorded in Hurricane Melissa’s eyewall at landfall in Jamaica are starting to be released. They’re hard to watch. For survivors of hurricanes Maria, Otis, Dorian, Irma, and so many other ...

A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft measured a 252-mile-per-hour gust at the ocean surface as the monster storm approached Jamaica. A NOAA hurricane hunter tracking Hurricane Melissa last month measured ...

Hurricane Melissa was already one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean—and now scientists have confirmed a new way it neared superlative status. Newly released data show ...

A verified 252 mph wind — the highest ever measured in any hurricane — has been confirmed from a dropsonde deployed by a NOAA Hurricane Hunters aircraft into Hurricane Melissa. This historic gust ...